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dilly
noun- an excellent or remarkable thing or person US, 1908
Usually used in a sarcastic sense. - Five minutes later another car drove up and a pair of dillies climbed out. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 70, 1947
- Judge Hitz, the humorist of the local bench, got off a dilly when he discovered the plaintiff in a matrimonial action was still living with her husband, the whole divorce proceedings being a sham to swindle creditors. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, pp. 233–234, 1951
- Every time I was up for a new cellmate they spin the bottle and give me a real dilly. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 116, 1955
- You’re the most impossible man I ever met. And I’ve met some dillies. — Raymond Chandler, Playback, p. 150, 1958
- Both were of the gooey sentimental type, dripping with sickly sweetness, but the latter was a real dilly. — Jim Thompson, The Grifters, p. 32, 1963
- Of course your idea is a dilly, just great. — Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957–1969, p. 459, 21 July 1965: Letter to John Clellon Holmes
- — Helen Dahlskog (Editor), A Dictionary of Contemporary and Colloquial Usage, p. 18, 1972
- a capsule of Dilaudid, a synthetic morphine used by heroin addicts trying to break their habit US, 1971
- — Geoffrey Froner, Digging for Diamonds, p. 26, 1989
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